First national Supports Intensity Scale interviewer training workshop to be held in November 2008

From November 5-7, 2008, AAIDD Senior Trainers will conduct a 3-day workshop on the Supports Intensity Scale (SIS) assessment in Baltimore, MD. The workshop will provide an in-depth orientation on SIS and it is an essential step to becoming an effective SIS interviewer.

The Supports Intensity Scale can be used to build robust funding methods for developmental disability services, new research reveals

New research by national experts, Jon Fortune and the late Gary Smith reveals that SIS yields solid information about individuals with intellectual disabilities, and that the assessment information can be used to build robust funding methods.

Oklahoma joins a growing list of states to adopt SIS to determine services for people with intellectual disabilities

Debbie Pumphrey of Oklahoma's Developmental Disabilities Division talks about the state's decision to adopt the Supports Intensity Scale and its plans to address concerns expressed by families, roll out training, and more.

Oregon after the pilot: Find out lessons learned and plans for full implementation of SIS this fall

Oregon established a discrete assessment unit and reinstated quality assurance and reliability procedures through training, as the state moves ahead with full scale implementation of the Supports Intensity Scale. This comes after conducting a pilot study with SIS last year. Jan Morgan from Office of Developmental Disabilities tells us more.

One SIS, seven nations: SIS users worldwide discuss how the Scale was translated and adapted to fit native contexts

From best practices in standardizing the Scale to technical implementation, experts from French Canada, Catalonia, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Taiwan discuss the complex process of adapting the Supports Intensity Scale to their native language and cultural context.